Just an excerpt, but for some reason I like the image. This is the description of the bard, who's having a musical showdown with the army of Edward I.
"On a rock, whose haughty brow
Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood,
Robed in the sable garb of woe
With haggard eyes the Poet stood;
(Loose his beard and hoary hair
Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air)
And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire,
Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre."
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Kind of brings to mind Ian McKellan as Gandalf, doesn't it? BTW, was it commonly accepted that bards were wizard-like? I'm reading The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer and the bard of this book has magical, wizard-like powers. You would have loved this book when you were twelve-berserkers and trolls and magical bards and all. :)
Oh, I've already read The Sea of Trolls. And yes, bards were often associated with magic in some form, though by the 18th century they took it so far in fiction that it started to be pretty ridiculous. Their being wizards makes sense though, since wizard originally meant wise man, and few were wiser than bards.
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